by Zenae Zukowski | Dec 23, 2025 | Lists
2025, what an incredible year for music. I want to thank our readers and the Metal Insider team for another year of metal. We sacrifice what we can to support metal and the scene. It’s what we live for. So, thank you for being part of the adventure. While it was...
by Zenae Zukowski | May 15, 2023 | News
Dark Fortress recently revealed their tour would be their last. The trek has now, sadly, come to a conclusion, and the group has called it quits after three decades. 2020’s Spectres From The Old World marks the group’s final record, which landed at #21 in Metal...
by Zenae Zukowski | Mar 1, 2023 | Lists, Top 10
From Omnium Gatherum’s debut, Spirits and August Light, to the transcending record of Souvenirs from The Gathering, February 2003 was an alluring month for metal. We collected ten strong records that recently celebrated their twentieth-anniversary last...
by Zenae Zukowski | Dec 24, 2020 | Lists, Top 50
2020 kicked off with a bang. Beginning with another successful year at 70000tons of Metal to seeing Heilung, Vader, and Opeth live, what could go wrong? The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the music industry to the point that I don’t know where...
by Jeff Podoshen | Dec 1, 2020 | Best of 2020, Columns, Lists, News, Top 20
Well, thankfully 2020 is coming to a close. Good riddance. And while the year itself was awful, the music wasn’t. Lots of great records in 2020 and I listened to a lot of them while staring into the backyard. Here are my top 20 records for 2020....